Chapter 996

This matter is no longer negotiable!

No need to dwell on it!

Prepare for ascension!

After speaking, He Pingsheng felt a sigh of relief: Is ascension finally coming?

“Good!” said Dalun Mingwang: “Husband, let’s go to my Dao Hall first!”

The two returned to Kong Jiaojiao’s Dao Hall.

Kong Jiaojiao said: “Ascension is fine, but I have two points to make!”

He Pingsheng nodded, signaling her to continue.

Kong Jiaojiao said: “First, let all the children ascend first, then the two of us will ascend afterward!”

This point posed no problem for He Pingsheng.

After all, ensuring all the children could ascend was essential.

If any one of them failed, we could still use the power of destiny to rescue them later.

“Second, I’ve always had a wish,” Dalun Mingwang smiled: “After we ascend, we should leave something behind for our descendants and future cultivators!”

“For instance, couldn’t we create a secret realm?”

“Husband, what do you think?”

He Pingsheng’s heart stirred: “That’s excellent!”

If he were to create a secret realm, he now had all the conditions.

First, he still possessed a small spiritual world!

Second, he could now set up ninth-rank arrays—setting up the arrays within the secret realm would be no issue.

Third, he had an enormous amount of resources.

Previously, he had slain over a dozen Great Emperors of the Phoenix Clan; though most ordinary materials were given to Luo Bingyao to bolster the human race, what He Pingsheng kept was still substantial.

Not to mention, at Piaomiao Mountain, he personally killed three Immortals: Feng Xian, Yuan Lu, and Shen Mang.

He gave one of their rings to Gu Miaochen, but the other two Immortals’ rings contained countless treasures.

Moreover, his own storage space held countless valuable items.

Various spiritual liquids, elixirs, magic treasures, Emperor weapons, and more…

Creating a secret realm was no problem whatsoever.

Besides resources, He Pingsheng also possessed numerous scriptures on cultivation techniques, divine arts, alchemy, artifact forging, talisman crafting, and array formation.

These were all top-grade!

Any of them would be sufficient as rewards.

Thus, in the following period, He Pingsheng began crafting the secret realm.

He modeled it after the layout of the original Yinming Emperor’s Palace.

The highest-tier reward was several [Heavenly and Earth Destiny Forces].

Each one could reshape one’s destiny—wasn’t that defying heaven itself?

In addition, there were several [True Immortal Peaches].

The second-tier rewards included various ninth-rank supreme elixirs and some Emperor-grade weapons!

The third-tier rewards were various cultivation techniques and divine arts!

The fourth-tier rewards consisted of various spiritual herbs and supreme spirit stones!

Then came some items that seemed ordinary but were beyond the reach of most cultivators.

In addition, he set up arrays.

He determined which items would be released upon each opening of the secret realm, and how often it would open, and so on.

All of this required arrays to control!

Setting up the secret realm was a massive undertaking.

After completing the entire secret realm, He Pingsheng finally placed another array at the entrance of this small world.

This array blocked cultivators of Mahayana Emperor realm and above from entering, allowing only those of Body Integration realm and below.

Any Mahayana Emperor realm cultivator who entered would be killed instantly.

Altogether, this entire process took three hundred and twenty-two years before He Pingsheng finally completed the secret realm.

“Satisfied?” He Pingsheng asked Kong Jiaojiao.

Kong Jiaojiao took his hand and nodded with a smile: “Of course I’m satisfied…”

“But… what should we name this secret realm?”

He Pingsheng looked at Dalun Mingwang and joked: “You proposed this, so let’s call it [Jiaojiao’s Secret Realm]?”

“Ah…” Dalun Mingwang’s cheeks flushed crimson; she clenched her teeth and pinched He Ping’s arm with two fingers, hard: “You’re usually so serious, He Pingsheng—how dare you…”

He Pingsheng winced in pain: “Stop… I didn’t mean it that way!”

“I’m just being honest!”

Kong Jiaojiao said: “Let’s name it [Dalun Heaven Realm]. That’s settled!”

“Huh…” He Pingsheng said: “That’s quite a grand name!”

Kong Jiaojiao turned around: “What are your plans now?”

“What do you intend to do?”

He Pingsheng fell silent for a moment, then said: “The children have all ascended—I must prepare for ascension too!”

“But before I ascend, I plan to enter seclusion once more to convert the true spirit energy within me into immortal spirit energy in advance!”

“That way, when I reach the Immortal Realm, I won’t be scrambling around!”

The Immortal Transformation Technique had already been upgraded by He Pingsheng into a Heaven-grade [True Essence Gathering Immortal Art].

It was time to practice it.

“Husband!” Kong Jiaojiao suddenly wrapped her arms around He Pingsheng’s waist, pressing her body against his: “Do you think… when we ascend to the Immortal Realm, will we land in the same place?”

He Pingsheng shook his head: “I don’t know.”

“Most likely, we won’t.”

Kong Jiaojiao’s eyes grew hazy: “Then… while we’re still together, spare me some time, please…”

…

He Pingsheng entered seclusion again!

This time, he practiced the [True Essence Gathering Immortal Art] while studying the roughly a thousand jade slips he had brought from Piaomiao Mountain.

Some of these jade slips contained Immortal techniques!

Others contained Immortal divine arts!

Others held wondrous Immortal spells.

Some detailed methods for cultivating Immortal herbs, raising Immortal familiars, and refining Immortal elixirs.

Immortal elixirs in the Immortal Realm were not ranked from first to ninth grade like those in the mortal realm!

In the Immortal Realm, Immortal elixirs were classified by [Transmutations]: First Transmutation, Second Transmutation… up to Ninth Transmutation.

Of course, He Pingsheng could only examine them for now—he could not yet practice these Immortal arts.

After all, he had not yet converted his internal energy into Immortal energy.

Converting to Immortal energy was not difficult.

According to some scriptures, the duration of the conversion could roughly indicate one’s innate talent.

Ordinary Immortals using standard Immortal Transformation Techniques could fully convert their magic power in about three days.

But with top-grade Immortal Transformation Techniques, the speed was faster.

Those with superior talent took longer—often ten days to half a month.

Some extraordinary prodigies required over three months.

He Pingsheng, using the supreme True Essence Gathering Immortal Art, took exactly half a year.

Perhaps because his spiritual energy was too profound, or perhaps due to his innate talent?

This seclusion was brief!

He emerged in less than a year!

Knowing He Pingsheng was about to ascend, Zhou Qingmei and several others came over.

Zhou Qingmei, Su Zhenzhen, and Dalun Mingwang were all present.

He Pingsheng glanced at them: Su Zhenzhen’s cultivation had finally reached Mahayana Emperor realm, though only the early stage.

Zhou Qingmei had reached the peak of Body Integration realm.

He Pingsheng was not worried about Zhou Qingmei—after all, this girl already possessed eighth-rank destiny.